Tag: food safety
Europe: UK opens facility for reporting on food crime
Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the National Food Crime Unit has launched Food Crime Confidential, a reporting facility where anyone with suspicions about food...
Americas: Neogen acquires companies, disinfectant technologies
Neogen Corporation has acquired Preserve International and Tetradyne LLC, sister companies owned and operated by Nevada-based Preserve International corporation.
Founded in 1991, Preserve and Tetradyne...
Europe: Codex members to meet on decisions
Members of the international food standards-setting body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, will meet at FAO in Rome this week.
They will be making decisions on:
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Europe: Bosch releases liquid food packaging lines
Bosch Packaging Technology has introduced an extended portfolio of liquid food filling and packaging machines to the North American market, compliant with 3-A Sanitary...
Americas: Researchers devise sensor to find bacteria – alive or dead
A new type of electronic sensor that might be used to quickly detect and classify bacteria for medical diagnostics and food safety has passed...
Americas: Milk exposed to LED light lose quality, researchers find
Cornell University researchers in the Department of Food Science found that exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) sources for even a few hours degrades the...
Asia Pacific: FSANZ calls for comments on safe food packaging
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is calling for submissions on a proposal investigating chemical migration from packaging into food and whether existing regulations...
Asia Pacific: Scientists in Singapore invent material that kills E Coli...
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a new material that can kill the E. coli bacteria within...
Asia Pacific: Authority did not find cause for alarm on using...
FSANZ has published two reports on the use of nanotechnology in food additives and food packaging.
The reports have reviewed the evidence on nanoscale silicon...
Europe: APET material for packaging fresh meat receives European patent
Faerch Plast’s MAPET II, which won a WorldStar award in 2015, is innovative mono packaging produced from a material for top sealing of fresh...